I know that I liked this movie because I had fun watching it and I have thought about it days later. The images from the movie evoked feelings that are fun to recall.
I also know that for some reason I did not like this movie because at some point I asked myself how long is this going to last? It was not a bladder condition that had me looking at my watch, but a certain feeling of restlessness. Maybe that it what the movie was going for...
It felt like an epic movie that should be filled with profound lessons. Maybe they were there and I just did not see them. There was a lot of storm imagery -- water, hurricanes, war, etc. There were some revelations of secrets long hidden (a universal theme of discovering that things in our childhood were different than we had thought). There was the peculiar oddity of aging backwards (I had heard that Merlin of King Arthur's Court "youthened" as he got older) that was very well portrayed -- Pitt's understated performance gave the experience a context of grace and patience that comes as close to being a message as anything else in this movie. There were "I want to live life the to fullest" lines inserted here and there -- I suppose an existentialist message in the face of hurricanes, aging, and other forces that overwhelm our human experience.
All-in-all, I would recommend this movie -- with the warning that you might not like it, but I would love to talk with you about it after you see it.
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